Picture Palace
A Novel

This elegant novel may be Theroux's best novel and even his best book. It is my favorite of his novels--untypical, risk-taking, deeply felt, written with passion and humor, as well as with his familiar ability to make his world vivid and dramatic. This story of a pioneering woman photographer in the......more

Interesting idea, some great writing in places… that’s the positive!......more

Read this book solely because it is so rare for me to have a physical copy of anything that if i ever have an actual book, I NEED to read it. Never have i powered through the pages of a book out of pure spite for the main character as much as this one. For most of the book I found maude completely u......more

Frankly I wonder why I persevered with this book when I've found it difficult to stick to anything lately. I guess it has to do with my partiality for unreliable narrators (as well as a strong memory of "Kowloon Tong"). This is the story of a fictional pioneer of photography, Maude Pratt, who is for......more

I loved the wit in this novel.......more